Comments on: How To Sync MobileMe, Address Book & iCal

By: Cord Keller

Cord Keller — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:32:27 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:30:24 +0000

Hi Lanai – Thanks for sharing your tip!

By: Lanai

Lanai — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:29:27 +0000

Oh my word! I cannot tell you how glad I am that I found this. Thank you for posting this information!
Here’s another tip (excuse me if someone posted this already — I read comments, just not aaalllll the comments): If you unregister the computer and then register it again, it will allow you to merge your data when you sync. If there’s another way to merge the data on an established computer I haven’t found it, but I used the un-/re-register method three times tonight. Definitely bookmarking your blog. Thanks again!

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:43 +0000

Thanks!

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:07:34 +0000

Thank you! I couldn’t find this info on Apple’s website. I tried to ask about this after picking my laptop up from its $750 repair job and the people at the store were too busy to want to help.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:15:05 +0000

Hi Leslie… I’ll try using The Force for this reply… First, I have to cover my butt: Don’t do anything. Take your iPhone and Mac to the Apple Store and have them look at it. There’s my disclaimer. Now, if you want to RISK LOSING YOUR DATA FOREVER, I can suggest a couple options. First, check out this Apple help page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414 and click on “Backing up your iPhone or iPod touch.” It shows how to restore your iPhone from the last time you plugged it into iTunes… (the last time BEFORE it went FUBAR.) That might work. Another option: If your data is correct on your Mac and/or MobileMe, you should be ok. It’s possible iTunes isn’t syncing your contacts – and you might be able to fix that, but you’d have to connect the iPhone to your Mac & open iTunes. If you decide to try it, click on your iPhone in the left column. Then click on the “Info” tab. Is the box is checked next to “Sync Address Book Contacts?”. If not, that could fix the problem. That’s all I can think of. Call the Apple Store. And use TimeMachine – it’s a life saver!

By: Leslie Axvig

Leslie Axvig — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:32:28 +0000

Help!!! I just synced my itunes account, and somehow after 8 months of it working correctly, my iphone numbers all disappeared. I had used this tutorial on 2/15/10 to get all my calendar entries from my iphone onto my computer and just used mobile me to put all of that data from the 2/15 sync back onto my laptop. Now, I’m terrified to use itunes again to sync because I’m worried my phone numbers (or lack thereof) will go from my iphone to my computer. I haven’t used time machine yet to back up everything. Is there a way to get the data I just pushed from mobileme onto my macbook onto my iphone? (I know there is, just frozen with rookie mac indecision, worried that I will delete all my phone numbers.) Help me Tony, you are my only hope.

By: Chary

Chary — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:16:01 +0000

Thank you THANK YOU! I have spent days on this and was getting ready to chuck my trial account. It’s incomprehensible why Apple would not explain the direction switching option up front. I’m a new convert to mac from pc and had already stumped two apple geniouses (genii?) on other issues. This was making me angry, but I’m calmer now.

What I still can’t figure out is why contact groups won’t sync but that’s not a biggee for me yet.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:48:36 +0000

Hi Dawn - I found an article on the Apple Support website here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1998 (you have to scroll down a bit). Unfortunately, it's written in "geek." However, it does give information(#4) on how to "reset the SyncServices" in iTunes. You could try that, but make sure all of your data is backed up first!

By: dawn oshea

dawn oshea — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:30:49 +0000

My problem is that the up to date info is on mobile me and not on my mac, so I don’t want to replace all data on mobile me w/ info on my mac or else that will delete all the info on mobile me.

So in the switch sync direction, it should be replace all sync info on this computer w/ sync info from mobile me

but I get the contacts could not be synced due to inconsistent data, over and over again…after trouble shooting everything I can find.

any insight would be huge.